Junichi Kurita

 

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Born in 1988, currently living in Shiga Prefecture. Belongs to Yamanami Studio since 2015. Enrolled in the ceramics course at Osaka University of Arts in 2006, but developed bipolar disorder the following year and dropped out in 2009. After that, he started making figurines and enrolled in a vocational school in 2012, but his condition worsened and he dropped out again. Although he was tormented by feelings of impatience, fear, and jealousy towards those around him, his unconscious desire to create something naturally led him to his current creative activities. He began creating works around January 2014, mainly paintings. His motifs are not all visible, but are often based on images from within his own mind, and the symptoms of his illness. He uses pens and brushes, and his paintings are drawn as his feelings flow, with dense and delicate lines and patterns reflected in multiple layers, realistically expressing the emotions welling up from within him.

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Junichi Kurita born in 1988/ living in Shiga/ at YAMANAMI since 2015 although Junichi Kurita entered in the ceramic course of Osaka University of Arts in 2006, he had to leave college in 2009 by reason of his depression. And then he became interested in making action figures and entered an art technical school in 2012. However he withdrew from school again. Since then Junichi Kurita has sublimated negative feelings, like fretfulness or anxiety, in a work of art. He started painting pictures in 2014. With a lot of lines and patterns in his paintings, Junichi Kurita expresses his various kinds of emotions.